PHPDeveloper.org http://www.phpdeveloper.org Up-to-the Minute PHP News, views and community en-us Sun, 19 May 2013 20:13:22 -0500 30 <![CDATA[PHP-GTK Community Site: Easily empty GtkContainer/GtkWindow]]> http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/7407 http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/7407 The PHP-GTK Community site has a quick new post today showing how to create/empty out a GtkContainer or GtkWindow in your code.

This function provides an easy way to empty a GtkWindow/GtkContainer. I use it when i need to refresh a part of my app by replacing some widgets with others. It can destroy or preserve the child widgets depending on your needs.

They provide both the code itself and a sample usage - a three line script that shows three ways to use it - empty out a container, empty out the container but keep its children intact, and how to use it in the event of a button click.

]]> Thu, 08 Mar 2007 08:42:00 -0600 <![CDATA[Ben Ramsey's Blog: Add Children with SimpleXML]]> http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/5355 http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/5355 In this new post on Ben Ramsey's blog today, he shares his experiences with SimpleXML, mentioning specifically some of the undocumented functions that he's noticed.

I was very excited today while glancing through the code in ext/simplexml/simplexml.c to find some, as of yet, undocumented methods in PHP's SimpleXMLElement class. This discovery came after I've spent several hours over the last couple of nights banging my head against the desk to figure out a way to create a class that extends SimpleXMLElement and adds a new method for adding a child, which would have to use DOM in order to work-or so I thought.

Of course, it's wasn't as easy as it seemed, and Ben soon found some of the limitations of the SimpleXML library. Of course, he did manage to find a way to add new children to the document you're working with (something that normally would have required the intervention of the DOM functionality). Check out the post for a code example.

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